Maps and Measurement

by Tim Cooke

Book Overview

This book examines practical mapmaking. Readers will be fascinated with projection, which is the way in which mapmakers reproduce the Earth's three-dimensional features on flat paper. They'll learn how positions are fixed through coordinates of latitude and longitude.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433935031
• ISBN13: 9781433935039
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.6" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 11 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 8